Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals

Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a highly valued commodity. Her book enriches our understanding of Tennyson's relationship to periodical culture and the textual implications of a poem's relationship with other texts on a periodical page.